I
fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has
practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Absorb what is useful, Discard
what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.

Using no way as a
way, Using no limitations as a limitation.

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless like water. Now you put water into
a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle,
you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can
crash. Be water, my friend.

Don't think feel. It's like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don't
concentrate on the finger, or you will miss all the heavenly glory.

If people say Jeet Kune Do is different from this or from that, then let the
name of Jeet Kune Do be wiped out, for that is what it is, just a name. Please
don't fuss over it.

Mistakes
are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Take
things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Obey the
principles without being bound by them.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow
survives by bending with the wind.

I personall do not
believe in 'style'. Because of 'styles', people are separated. They are not
united together because styles became law.

To reach me, you
must move to me. Your attack offers me an opportunity to intercept you.